Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted b...y audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator's lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

What I ask of American Christianity is not to show us more creeds, but more of Christ; not more rites and ceremonies, but more rel...igion glowing with love and replete with life,--religion which will be to all weaker races an uplifting power, and not a degrading influence. Jesus Christ has given us a platform of life and duty from which all oppression and selfishness is necessarily excluded. While politicians may stumble on the barren mountains of fretful controversy and ask in strange bewilderment, "What shall we do with the weaker races?" I hold that Jesus Christ answered that question nearly two thousand years since. "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

And even so, he's stale, he's been there too long.Touch him, and you'll find he's all gone inside...just like an old mushroom, all wormy inside, and hollowunder a smooth skin and an upright appearance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Bees plunder the flowers here and there, but afterward they make of them honey, which is all theirs; it is no longer thyme or marj...oram. Even so with the pieces borrowed from others; one will transform and blend them to make a work that is all one's own, that is, one's judgement. Education, work, and study aim only at forming this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed and strangle...d by strangers. These things happen. Even so, I shall be ahead because of trusting the beach, the night and strangers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If your child yells at you in front of someone else, you may feel outraged and embarrassed. Even so, try to see the incident from ...your child's perspective and discover what compelled him to act this way ("You must have been pretty angry to speak to me that way"). If you can do this, you can put an unpleasant incident behind you and in the process gain insight into your child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »